Re: Update FreeType's build systems (GSoC Project Idea #1)

[Vincent Torri]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 2:49 PM Afrid Hussain <afridhussain.d@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Werner and Freetype Development Team,
> As you said, I have tried installing the freetype using all the three 
> methods. Here is the result (✅ means worked)
> ==> For Ubuntu Linux
> ✅ Classical Method (./autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install)
> ✅ Cmake
> ✅ Meson (requred version for meson is >=55, Meson version is not updated in 
> ubuntu repositories, but got from official meson github repo)
>
> ===> For MacOS
> ✅ Classical Method
> ✅ Cmake
> ✅ Meson
>
> ===> For windows
> Coming to windows I was having trouble building on it. I need some guidance 
> to build freetype library on windows. Can anybody help me?

for an environment similar to linux : install MSYS2 (msys2.org, follow
all the steps there) and you have a posix-like terminal, with packages
installed with a windows port of pacman. Then compile like on linux

Vincent Torri